Students Focusing on South Asia

Resources for Students including fellowship information.

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Doctoral Students

STEFAN BAUMS, PhD student, Asian Languages and Literature.

AMY BHATT, PHD Candidate, Women Studies. Research interests include:
transnational feminist theory; representations of gender, neoliberal
identity formation, and the state;  the intersection of reproduction
and governmentality among diasporic South Asian communities.

BRENT BIANCHI, PhD student, Ethnomusicology. Working with Ter Ellingson to focus upon anthropology and music of Northeast India and Nepal, and other 'peripheral' regions where there have been extensive contacts between speakers of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman and/or Austro-Asiatic languages". Prior fieldwork mainly among Newars in Nepal; hopes to do dissertation research in Assam.

TAPOJA CHAUDHARI. PhD Candidate, Anthropology. M.Phil. (2002), M.A. (2001) in Sociology from University of Delhi, India. Research interests: Research interests: politics of biodiversity conservation, anthropology of place and space, critical discourse analysis. Currently doing field work on 'Community based Eco-tourism in Periyar Tiger Reserve, India. Working with Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan.

SRINIVAS CHOKKAKULA, PhD student, Geography.  Research interests: Development studies, transboundary resource conflicts, natural resource management, local planning and governance in India. svas@u.washington.edu

DAVID CITRIN, PhD Student, Anthropology; (BA Cornell 2002). Medical anthropology, social inequalities in international health and development, structural violence in Nepal.

ROWAN ELLIS, PhD Candidate, Geography, focusing on the politics of middle class youth in Chennai. MA (2004) Geography, University of Washington. Research Interests: Currently enrolled in the Department of Geography interested in neoliberalism and the remaking of urban space. Field research focuses on the political activity of an Indian middle class, Tamil and Dravidian politics, urban development and neoliberal state restructuring in Chennai

ANDREW GLASS, PhD student, Asian Languages and Literature.

CHRISTINE KARWOSKI, PhD Student, Asian Languages and Literature.

LEAH KOSKIMAKI, PhD Student, Anthropology; (BA Texas). Anthropology of development, agrarian history, nationalism, public sphere, youth culture, Hindi language politics in North India (Uttaranchal).

NIMAH MAZAHERI, PhD Student, Political Science. Research Interests: State-business relations and natural resource sectors in India.

SHARLEEN MONDAL, PhD Student, Department of English. B.A. Texas A&M University, M.A. University of Washington.  Research interests include nineteenth-century British liberalism, race, gender, nationalism, and imperialism.

PREM PAHLAJRAI, PhD Student, Asian Languages and Literature.

TANVI PATEL, Tanvi Patel, PhD Student, Department of English. B.A. University of
California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. San Diego State University, M.A.
University of Washington.  Research interests in nineteenth-century
British Colonial Victorian and 20th century South Asian Postcolonial
literture include home and domesticity, genre studies, gender, migration
and diaspora.

JAYA RAMESH, PhD Student, Anthropology (BA Maryland 2001); Political ecology of ethnic conflict; environmental sustainability, socio-economic development in developing countries.

JUNED SHAIKH, PhD Student, History.

AMIR SHEIKH, PhD Student, Anthropology (BS Washington 1998); Political ecology, environmental history, post-colonial theory, anthropology of space and place, GIS.

KACY McKINNEY, PhD Student, Geography. (MA UT Austin 2006); Agrarian change, Critical Development Studies, Political Ecology, the politics of crop biotechnology in India and Brazil.

Masters Students

ELIZABETH BRADY, MA Student, South Asian Studies (BSFS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, 2003); Research interests involve how religious and linguistic identities are institutionalized through educational programs, literacy development, and initiatives to address the propagation of identity violence.

TAHAIRA RIZVI, MA Student, South Asian Studies.

SHEMON SALAM, MA Student, South Asian Studies.